GRE Word List
AMALGAM
a mixture of different elements
The meaning of the word amalgam is a mixture of different elements.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| jaundice | yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments |
| acne | a disorder of the skin caused by inflammation of the skin glands and hair follicles |
| amalgamate | to unite in or as if in an amalgam |
| arboretum | a place where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes |
| promulgate | to make (an idea, belief, etc.) known to many people by open declaration : proclaim |
| epilogue | a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work |
| quench | put out |
| appall | to overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |